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Action

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

Action is character.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.